. To promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. This will be done by advancing advocacy and mainstreaming activities to align with the national policy and gender mainstreaming strategy, and by increasing the representation and participation of women in various socioeconomic, cultural and political spheres by 50 per cent by 2014/15. . To monitor and evaluate the mainstreaming of women empowerment and gender equality outcomes, ensuring that policy and programme implementation are directed to common goals in line with Government priorities. This will be achieved by developing and maintaining a monitoring and evaluation framework and establishing a database with gender responsive indicators and readily available gender disaggregated data in 2013/2014.